Britain’s most prominent black judge conspired with a Sunday newspaper to
bring down the Cabinet minister Chris Huhne, a court was told yesterday.

Constance Briscoe was feeding information to TheMail on Sunday
about an incident in 2003 when Huhne pressured his wife Vicky Pryce into
taking his speeding penalty points, the jury was told.

Ms Briscoe also passed on to the newspaper details about text messages sent
from Huhne’s teenage son, Peter, to his father. When this was reported,
police raided the Pryce family home in South London and seized the phone.
Shortly after the story broke that Huhne